Out Like a Lamb

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

They waltz me into an empty ballroom
with 5 zillion other purple people in it.
I am given a resentful number 2 pencil
and a scoresheet that won't stop waving.

1. Where are all the number *1* pencils, anyway?

A. stop
B. Dr. Zhivago
C. $13,456,789.09
D. Schrödinger's cat

2. How can something be simultaneously alive and dead?

A. pass the peas
B. Land of the Lost
C. this would be a poor choice
D. please stop asking questions

3. Can I ask just two more questions?

A. no
B. giraffe
C. the protagonist
D. What? I didn't quite catch that.

4. Where would you like to have your hearing tested?

A. nevermore
B. next Thursday
C. misplaced modifier
D. An American in Paris

5. Have *you* ever been to Paris?

A. nein
B. Demasiado caro
C. Che diavolo sta succedendo?
D. S'il vous plaît, finissez ce mauvais poème maintenant!


fin


note ▼

April 30—Multiple Choice(s)—create a poem that is somehow like a multiple choice test, OR turn this into another “free day” for our last day of April and write any poem of your choice, OR write multiple, short, linked poems…like the sidewalk poems!

Translation of #4:

A. No (in German)
B. Too expensive (in Spanish)
C. What the hell is going on? (In Italian)
D. Please end this bad poem now. (in French)



The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
is a book by Tom Wolfe, merry pranksters and all